Filter Bar Properties

You can modify these properties found in the Filter Bar Menu for items in the filter bar, depending on whether they're workbook and canvas filters, selection steps or parameters.

Property Description
Limit Values By

Specifies how the filters and selection steps in the filter bar get their selection values.

See Specify Limit Values By for the Workbook Filter Bar.

You can't configure this property for parameters used in the filter bar.

Filter Values

Specifies whether the selected values for the filters, selection steps, and parameters in the filter bar are displayed.

Options
  • Show All - Displays selected values for all existing items in the filter bar.
  • Hide All - Hides selected values for all existing items in the filter bar.
  • Show by Default - Shows selected values for items that you add next. Items that you added before selecting this option aren't affected.

See Display or Hide Selected Values in the Workbook Filter Bar.

Auto-Apply Filters

Specifies whether the filter, selection step, and parameter value selections in the filter bar are automatically applied.

Options
  • On - Applies value selections as you make them in the filter bar.
  • Off - Doesn't automatically apply any selections you make in the filter bar. Adds an Apply button to the Filter or Selection Steps dialog.

See Manually Apply Selections in the Workbook Filter Bar.

Move to Dashboard Filter

Converts all canvas filters in the workbook to dashboard filters. Adds a dashboard filter visualization to each canvas and moves the canvas filters for that canvas from the filter bar into the visualization.

Options
  • Horizontal - Orients the new dashboard filters visualization horizontally.
  • Vertical - Orients the new dashboard filters visualization vertically.

See Convert Canvas Filters to Dashboard Filters.

You can't convert workbook filters, selection steps, or parameters used in the filter bar to dashboard filters using this option.